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Sponsored links Superstar Namie Amuro has unwrapped the MV for "Birthday" from her upcoming album "_genic" (release date: June 10). Contributor Wanted! ! The video, which was shot in one take, has Namie Amuro preparing for her birthday party in a ...

N'Doul also added for PS4/PS3 fighting game shipping this year This year's 25th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is revealing more playable characters on Monday for Bandai Namco Entertainment's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heav...

With the original Digidestined returning for a new Digimon anime titled Digimon Adventure Tri. . digimon fans who grew up watching the original are as excited as ever. However, the new artwork does not seem to fly as much to other fans who were mo...

Digimon World Project Ark is a free, fan-made project that aims to revive and expand on the original Digimon World game released back in 1999 for the PlayStation. It's been in the making for a number of years now and has changed in look and engine...

Last week it was revealed that Arslan Senki x Musou is in the works, adding Hiromu Arakawa and Yoshiki Tanaka's The Heroic Legend of Arslan to the growing list of properties given the Dynasty Warriors-style game treatment.

Dull harem anime "Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata" is putting its girls on pillows, towels, and other various items, and selling them off in their underwear in anticipation of the upcoming second season. The official product photos are quite telling.

The Mitsukoshi department store brought on Toshiba's Chihara Aico as a temporary receptionist last month to test out her in-development voice recognition software. While she isn't as advanced as some of her other employed robot peers, Toshiba is t...

Manga about high school girl who plays competitive karuta inspired 2 anime series This year's 12th issue of Kodansha's Be-Love magazine will reveal on Friday that the live-action film adaptation of Yuki Suetsugu's Chihayafuru manga will premiere i...

Sponsored links As most fans would know, the famous idol group AKB48 had their second AKB48 Sports Day at the Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo, where they battled it out to see how they'd do in the world of athletics.

The official website for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Eiji Masuda's romantic comedy Jitsu wa Watashi wa has updated with a new key visual featuring its seven main characters, also announcing its premiere schedule in Japan starting on July 6.

Tweet Pin It Japanese trauma techno-pop group URBANGARDE has released a music video "Coin Locker Babies" from their live-show only mini-album release Shojou Kaitai, featuring costume design by Japanese lolita fashion company Angelic Pretty.

The intense instrumental blowing of Hibike Euphonium has resumed once more as the show's cute band members aid the novice Hazuki in building her tuba skills before the advent of the next great event, bringing an abundance of its usual assortment o...

VAMPS finished the sole headlining show of their 2015 American tour on May 1st by delivering an extra-long concert for their Bloodsucker fans at New York's Best Buy Theater, located in the heart of Times Square.

WebNewtype, Monthly Hero's magazine both will host manga Ushiro, the PSP ghost horror role-playing game that Level-5 announced in 2009 but has yet to release, is inspiring a manga series. The manga is actually based on Ushiro: Fukigen na Shinigami...

"Himouto! Umaru-chan" - Main Cast & Anime Character Designs Posted by pKjd on May 13, 2015 @ 8:48 pm 13 May The official website for the upcoming TV anime series, 'Himouto! Umaru-chan', has updated with character designs and VA list for the main c...

Ramen has always played a great role in Japanese culture, with each region having its own distinct flavors. Today, I will be introducing a ramen shop in Kurume, a city in the southern part of Kyushu. 大砲ラーメン (Taihou Ramen) is a ramen shop that has ...

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? eases past the halfway mark this week as it continues on and that means its time to showcase what's next. The seventh episode aired earlier today (yes, we're behind) and Warner Bros.

When introduced with their 2015 plans last November, programming block Noitamina's adaptation of Sky Crawler novelist Hiroshi Mori's Subete ga F ni Naru (All is F, also known as the Perfect Insider) was presented as a A-1 Pictures production from ...

The PlayStation 3 and Vita versions of Steins;Gate will be released in Europe on June 5th, PQube have announced. The game will be available both physically and digitally. Meanwhile, the North American version of the game is still in its submission...

Mai Kuraki held a talk event at Aeon Laketown on May 10 (Sunday) to commemorate her first collaboration with Titicaca. Titicaca is involved with ethnic fashions, magazines, and social work. This collaborative project is for round one of the "Share...

Outside of Japan, the name "Dragon Quest" may not have the same brand-recognition as other video game franchises, like Final Fantasy or Mario, but inside Japan it's basically on the same level. And if you've ever had the pleasure of slashing your ...

And so we return to our adorable little romance show that is Ore Monogatari. Does it stay as adorable as it usually is? Let's find out. So the episode picks up where the last one left off with Yamato holding in a big secret (although it's obvious ...

"You Musn't Kiss Her, Okay? " Sundays at 12:30 pm EST on Crunchyroll Shiraishi considers the evidence and figures out the nature of Yamada's power. Yamada's conflict with Odagiri is compounded by his past history with Ushio, his Best Frenemy who h...

Actor Keisuke Sagawa revealed on his radio show that his wife, voice actress Nobuyo Oyama is currently diagnosed with dementia. He revealed that she is unable to retain short term memory and has exhibited symptoms of the illness some time ago.

In an odd announcement via Twitter/USA Today, you can now order pizza from Domino's by simply tweeting a pizza emoji. The reveal came shortly after Domino's went HAM with pizza emojis on Twitter yesterday.

About the Photographer Inspired by the stunningly creative street fashion that exploded on the streets of Tokyo and Osaka in the late 1990's, photo-journalist Kjeld Duits launched JAPANESE STREETS in 2002.

The Otaku's Study in September 2011 Next week, The Otaku's Study is set to celebrate its 9th Anniversary online as an independent website, and I am ecstatic to have joined many of you on this journey these years.

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